The focus was early years, and in the photo below, you can see teachers putting their solution to the muffins problem on the board ready to share and reflect. The teachers were asked to second guess what strategies the year 2 students might use for this unfamiliar problem. The problem is designed to find out what the students already now and can practice prior to actually teaching multiplication. The range of samples was very representative of what I see when I run this problem in classrooms - many rich and meaningful discussions followed.
As always it is a delight to be back in SA.
The story of the problem was:
The canteen workers needed to make 12 muffins with 6 m&ms on each muffin. They needed to buy the m&ms. How many m&ms did they need to buy?
Try it and see what your class understands about early multiplicative thinking.
Enjoy!
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